The neglected but loved hero

Chapter 31: Attack

(A/N: Damn. I meant to have this out yesterday but that didn't happen. I gonna be honest, I think this story only has like... 5... 10 chapters left? I don't know, maybe I'll make it a clean 40 chapters. Big things are coming though. So much planned for the next couple chapters. I hope you enjoy!)

It's been a few days since we started training at the camp and so far, everything was fine. I started believing that the uneasy feeling I had when we were coming here was just in my head. I was just overthinking things. So far, everything's been great, I've gotten to train with Izumi a bunch

It was getting dark and we had all eaten. The WWP and Aizawa had everyone gathered. "Alright, as a bit of a reward, you're all going to get to participate in a bit of a game!" Mandalay shouted.

Everyone began to cheer, until Aizawa spoke up. "Except for those that failed their exam. You all still need to take your classes." Everyone who failed, groaned. Aizawa wrapped us all in his scarf and dragged us back to camp for our remedial classes.

We sat down as Aizawa and Vlad began going through lessons.

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Izumi POV

Everyone got put into groups of two. I was lucky and got put with Kaina. We were having to go into the forest and do a 'trial of bravery' as they put it. I was feeling nervous since I was never very good with scary stuff.

"Izumi?" I jumped a bit, startled by Kaina's suddenness. "You okay?"

"Uh, heh. Y-yeah. I'm fine." I nervously scratched the back of my head as she seemed to begin to study me.

"You're that scared, huh?"

I froze, frantically shaking my head. "N-no, absolutely not. I-I don't get s-scared by this k-kind of stuff."

She watched me for another second, before smiling. She wrapped her arm around my shoulder. "Oh, Izumi, being scared isn't such a bad thing." Kaina watched as Katsumi and Shoto walked into the forest.

"Yeah, but... we're supposed to be heroes." I looked down to the ground. "We're not supposed to be afraid of anything so stupid."

I heard Kaina sigh, making me look back up to her. "Everyone's afraid of something. Even heroes."

"Well... what...what are you scared of?"

I saw her shiver a bit. "S-spiders." I tried to hold back the laugh but quickly failed, snorting. She looked at me, blushing. "H-hey!"

"Sorry! Heh, sorry. I just never expected you of all people to be scared of spiders. You just seem so... I don't know. You just seem unfazed by anything."

"I... internalize most of it. Like with Stain. I was terrified. I thought I'd have to shoot someone for the first time." She took a deep breath to steady herself. "I never told Izuku any of this because I didn't want him to worry. You know how he is."

I nodded, thinking back. "Yeah."

Uraraka and Tsuyu walked into the forest next, my nerves began to shake. We were next.

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Izuku POV

We finally arrived at the building and Aizawa threw us inside. "Sit down and get ready to learn." We got up and got on our seats. Monoma was laughing about how only one from his class failed, like every night.

"Quiet!" Vlad shouted, shutting Monoma up.

After a while, I began to get antsy. I was struggling to stay in my seat, feeling something was wrong. I wasn't even paying any attention to the lessons. 'What the hell is up with me?!'